Cinema Quotes

"I always was a great fan of Malayalam cinema, Sathyan in particular. I loved their understated acting."

"It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films."

"Both Peter Chan and Wong Kar Wai are directors that I respect very much."

"Movies made back in the day would have a single scene that defined what the character was all about."

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."

Martin Scorsese

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."

Orson Welles

"No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."

Ingmar Bergman

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction."

Stanley Kubrick

"Cinema is truth 24 times per second."

Jean-Luc Godard

"The film of tomorrow will be an act of love."

Francois Truffaut

"Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams."

Federico Fellini

"I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema."

Francois Truffaut

"Film as dream, film as music."

Ingmar Bergman

"Cinema resembles so many other arts. If cinema has very literary characteristics, it also has theatrical qualities, a philosophical side, attributes of painting and sculpture and musical elements. But cinema is, in the final analysis, cinema."

Akira Kurosawa

"I don't like the idea of 'understanding' a film. I don't believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art."

Federico Fellini

"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated."

Francois Truffaut